I Quotes
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“If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.”
“If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.”
Source: The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
“If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.”
“If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert”
“If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.”
“If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.”
“If we require some kind of sign, or "proof," for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tust, not in God but in the sign or proof.”
Source: The Gospel According to Peanuts
“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”
“If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.”
“If we resolve to display love like our loving God above, we will dissolve prejudice and solve many human ills.”
“If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior.”
Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus
“If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we might not be so quick to evaluate the adequacy of their answers. We might, instead, begin listening to their questions. Out of the questions of students come some of the most creative ideas and discoveries.”
“If we rest, we shall be refreshed.”
“If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.”
“If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.”
“If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a mass extinction in the long term. Would the life on Earth be radically different? Of course we can't say for sure, but I think a lot of it would look familiar. Like a lot of people, I worry a lot about whether marine mammals would survive, especially whales. Ocean acidification is one of the major killers in climate change events, and that makes the ocean a very inhospitable place.”
“If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle of all against all - it can be seen how the two practices emerge from and limit the extend of the disequilibrating impact of the contradiction involved in the geocultural agenda.”
“If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“If we reward our children for doing the right things, or discipline for intentionally doing the wrong things, then we might be viewed as doing the right thing. On the other hand, we (or parents) might not fully grasp the right thing—as the “right thing” becomes convoluted in the mix of the time and period, the latest “grand experiment”, and other influences of parenthood and childrearing.”
Source: A Father and Future Felon
“If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu’s words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.”
Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha
“If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go”
“If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly”
“If we run into any legionnaires we'll say we're out hiking and show them our forged imperial identity papers."
"What is hiking?" Alain asked. "Walking for fun," Mari explained. "I mean, you're walking long distances, but not because you have to. For fun."
Alain gazed steadily at her. "Walking long distances, for fun. Are you saying a joke?"
Mari shook her head. "I know it sounds like that, but people really do it.”
Source: The Hidden Masters of Marandur
“If we sacrifice the opportunity to sacrifice, what we have in fact sacrificed is the opportunity live.”
“If we sang in English, we would have global No. 1s, and no one would say anything.”
“If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.”
Source: The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin
“If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.”
“If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.”
“If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.”
“If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.”
“If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes it instantly, once for all. ... Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.”
“If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.”
“If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.”
“If we say no to plastic bags, it will save millions of people down the line.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“If we say of a boy or a man, "He is of good character," we mean that he does not do a great many things that are wrong, and we also mean that he does do a great many things which imply much effort of will and readiness to face what is disagreeable. He must not steal, he must not be intemperate, he must not be vicious in any way; he must not be mean or brutal; he must not bully the weak. In fact, he must refrain from whatever is evil. But besides refraining from evil, he must do good.”
Source: Strenuous Life
“If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.”
“If we say that a person has style we may wish to imply that he is unnatural, affected, self-conscious or ostentatious. In the sixteenth century 'maniera' was generally a desirable attribute of a work of art, but this positive aspect was accompanied by the realization of the negative one that correspond to what we now call, derogatively, stylization.”
Source: Mannerism
“If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.”
“If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?”
“If we say that mind and happiness are inversely proportional, do we insult happy people or remind them to review their minds?”
“If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.”
“If we say that our office is like our second home. Then, our team should be like our second family.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“If we say that religion is a virus, then why isn't science a virus?”
“If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.”
Source: Doctor Faustus - Second Edition
“If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?”
“If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.”
“If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.”
“If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.”
Source: The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith
“If we say, 'The government sucks,' we're kind of saying that we suck.”
“If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.”